If it makes you feel any better, I am a fool with 4 dogs and it's actually more unusual when one of them isn't throwing up. Having watched Wallace in crypt0's vids, he is cute as heck, maybe the cutest Yorkie (?) I've seen. You chose well, in terms of size, as one of these guys hacked up a squirrel once:
OH MY GOD. GROSS. NO!
A squirrel???? NO! OMG.
I had a rat terrier (he's still living and kicking, but with other family members) who would occasionally eat a pigeon. WHOLE. FEATHERS, BEAK, FEET, and ALL. He was CRAZY. He would become insanely inflamed for like a month, but he never puked.
Wallace was a rescue puppy, so we don't know for sure, but we believe he is a Yorkipoo. ^_^ Half yorkie, half... poodle? Anyway, he's certainly larger than your average yorkie, but yes he is the perfect size. The scary thing is that toys are completely foreign materials that could seriously damage his digestive tract. Poor little guy.
I know what you mean. My dogs are huge chewers. I give them palm fronds from palm trees now. The truth is almost every toy is dangerous somehow. If dog toys were children's toys, 95% of them would be taken off the market. Even the edible ones often can develop extremely sharp edges.
Unfortunately, I guess that means my dogs find something else to chew on from time to time, like our poor squirrel.
Ermergerd. Thanks for that advice, though.
You know, I recently ordered a toy for him online but there was no information as to how big it was... and it turned out to be made for large dogs. It's hilarious watching him struggle to carry it, but he likes it well enough and the best thing is: it's too big for him to destroy. HAH! FOILED!
You might look into Kong or other puzzle-toys. Instead of using their overpriced fillings, just use peanut butter. My havanese dropped from about 14lbs to 10lbs and she's back on a peanut butter treat diet. Lot of calories, but healthy otherwise.
Yeah thanks! I read an article a while back, though, about how some peanut butters contain an ingredient that is harmful to dogs. I'm sorry that I can't provide more information, but I wanted to warn you nonetheless, if you haven't already read about it. Not all peanut butter is made with it.
Yep, you're right, but it's usually not your main brands:
"Krush Nutrition's "Nutty by Nature" xylitol-containing peanut butter. Xylitol, a natural sugar alcohol sweetener popular for its low glycemic index but known to cause hypoglycemia and hepatic necrosis in dogs, is now also found in several specialty peanut and nut butter brands."
Xylitol is the same stuff that's in some chewing gum that is super deadly for dogs.
One nice thing about big dogs is you get more leeway in your parts-per-million on accidental toxins. Those two whits dogs knocked a bottle of chocolate liquer off of a refrigerator and slurped most of it up. Spent a long time stuffing activated charcoal down their throats until they threw it back up.
Omg dogs are insane. I'm glad to hear that they survived that incident, and also that you already know the dangers of the peanut butters. Thank you also for clarifying that for me.
Thanks for the reminder! Dogs and anything ending in -tol don't often go together.
This is a great product too, although I bought a different brand:
https://www.amazon.com/Outward-Hound-Flapper-Interactive-Puzzle/dp/B006ZTTSOE/ref=pd_day0_199_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B006ZTTSOE&pd_rd_r=CS7A7KBE0TGT09NV1CD7&pd_rd_w=c2XsG&pd_rd_wg=NNXmG&psc=1&refRID=CS7A7KBE0TGT09NV1CD7
That turns their regular feeding into a toy. It's also healthier, it makes them eat slower, because they have to puzzle the kibble out. That makes them gulp less air while eating and eat slower, which is healthier for digestion and makes them less gassy.
It also, most critically, helps to cut down on vomiting (again, due to the air).
Oh cool! But our little guy is a typical yorkie in that he eats slowly, and tries to play in between bites lol Sometimes he's simply not interested in eating. But maybe that's because of the toy-eating... -_-
It's possible the puzzle bowl would make him more interested in it, since he'd have to sort of earn it.
Yeah I think it definitely could. He is very intelligent and it's easy to see that he gets bored.